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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: Not my will, but thine, be done. What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling preaching is personal counseling on a group basis personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
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My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
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